After Dark - Don Valley Bowl, Sheffield

Fright Night Halloween Carnival

Ghosts, witches, wizards and zombies in their thousands took to the streets of Sheffield for the annual Fright Night festival. There was a carnival atmosphere as the city centre was transformed into terrifying tourist attraction for the annual Halloween carnival. Among the attractions were a fancy dress catwalk, urban dance, shopping trolley zombie grannies, a monster in the fountain, a spooky ghost ship, Star Wars Stormtroopers, Uncle Fest on his moving piano, a voodoo New Orleans jazz band and the usual funfair rides and stalls.

Beyond Limits sculpture exhibition in the garden - Chatsworth House, Derbyshire

For the first time, Beyond Limits featured the work of a single artist, the British sculptor Barry Flanagan, RA OBE (1941-2009).

The exhibition presented a selection of Flanagan's critically-acclaimed late works. Considered one of the most versatile, imaginative and radical sculptors of his generation, his characteristic bronze hares, represented in a variety of guises, are installed throughout the gardens at Chatsworth House.

 Nijinski Hare

 Large Nijinski Hare on Anvil Point

 Bronze Horse

 Drummer

 Leaping Hare on Crescent and Bell

 Six foot leaping Hare on steel pyramid

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Composition

 

 Large Troubador

Angela Conner (1935-present) Bronze busts - Chatsworth House, Derbyshire

Angela Conner is a British sculptor and in her early career was a paid apprentice carver to Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975). Angela was a close friend of Andrew Cavendish, the 11th Duke of Devonshire. The collection at Chatsworth includes portrait busts of various public figures; 

Lady Emma Tennant, Harold Macmillan, Sir Tom Stoppard, Lord Rothschild, Sir Roy Strong , Sir Patrick Leigh-Fermor, Sir John Betjeman, Andrew, 11th Duke of Devonshire, Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, HM The Queen, HRH The Prince of Wales, Self-Portrait. Lucian Freud, The Earl of Burlington, 1976.

Balloon Ride across Luxor at Sunrise

Produced by Sindbad Balloons - Luxor
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The Pyramids of Giza - Cairo, Egypt

Of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, the Pyramids of Giza have withstood the ravages of time. Far from being isolated in the desert as carefully angled photos suggest, they rise just beyond the outskirts of Giza City.

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The Pyramids of Giza and The Sphinx - Cairo, Egypt

The legendary monument, whose enclosure is entered through the Valley Temple, is carved from an outcrop of soft limestone that was supposedly left standing after the harder surrounding stone was quarried for the Great Pyramid; however, since the base stone was too soft to work on directly, it was clad in harder stone before finishing.

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The Mohammed Ali Mosque, The Citadel - Cairo, Egypt

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Abu Simbel - The Nile Valley, Egypt

The great Sun Temple of Abu Simbel ("Father of the Ear of Corn") epitomizes the monumentalism of the New Kingdom during its imperial heyday, when Ramses II waged colonial wars. To impress his power on the Nubians, Ramses had four gigantic statues of himself with unblinking stare confronting travellers as they entered Egypt from Africa.

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